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21) Shadows of self
Author
Series
Mistborn novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of Mistborn with his first novel in the series since The Alloy of Law. With The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America.The trilogy's heroes are now figures of myth and legend, even objects of religious veneration. They are...
23) Fire
Author
Series
Graceling Realm volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Language
English
Description
"Tyranny comes in many guises, and tyrants thrive in palaces and one-room hovels, in back alleys and playgrounds. Tyrants abound on the verges of civilization, where disorder frays the rule of civil conduct and propriety surrenders to brutal imposition. Millions are made to kneel and yet more millions die horrible deaths in a welter of suffering and misery. But leave all that behind and plunge into escapist fantasy of the most irrelevant kind, and...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 8
Language
English
Description
Centuries after survivors of the first human-alien war start over in an unindustrialized region under religious rule, a cybernetic avatar reawakens to restart humanity's progress and claim its place in the universe.
Author
Series
Courtyards of the Others volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blood prophet Meg Corbyn, who can see the future when her skin is cut, escapes enslavement by her Controller and teams up with a shape-shifter who employs her as a Human Liaison.
28) Winterkeep
Author
Series
Graceling Realm volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
The highly anticipated next book in the New York Times bestselling, award-winning Graceling Realm series, which has sold 1.7 million copies.
For the past five years, Bitterblue has reigned as Queen of Monsea, heroically rebuilding her nation after her father's horrific rule. After learning about the land of Torla in the east, she sends envoys to the closest nation there: Winterkeep—a place where telepathic foxes bond...
For the past five years, Bitterblue has reigned as Queen of Monsea, heroically rebuilding her nation after her father's horrific rule. After learning about the land of Torla in the east, she sends envoys to the closest nation there: Winterkeep—a place where telepathic foxes bond...
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When two indigenous foster children find a secret portal to another reality, they encounter Ochek, the only hunter supporting his starving community of Misewa, and the three try to save Misewa before the icy winter freezes everything.
Author
Series
Daevabad trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Nahri and Ali are determined to save both their city and their loved ones, but when Ali seeks support in his mother's homeland, he makes a discovery that threatens not only his relationship with Nahri, but his very faith.
33) Jimmy the Hand
Author
Series
Riftwar. Legends of the Riftwar volume 3
Language
English
Description
Jimmy the Hand, boy thief of Krondor, lived in the shadows of the city. The sewers were his byways and a flea-ridden, rat-infested cellar his home. Although gifted beyond his peers, he was still but a nimble street urchin, a pickpocket with potential. Until the day he met Prince Arutha.
Aiding the Prince in his rescue of Princess Anita from imprisonment by Duke Guy du Bas-Tyra, Jimmy runs afoul of Black Guy's secret police. Given the choice of disappearing...
34) The gilded girl
Author
Series
Gilded magic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rendered penniless by her father's untimely death, a girl in an alternate-world early 20th-century New York, where only the elite are permitted to wield magic, forms a pact with a servant girl to prevent their magic from being suppressed.
Author
Series
Stormwrack novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Language
English
Description
"The second novel in the Stormwrack series, following a young woman's odyssey into a fantastical age-of-sail world"-- Publisher.
36) Amberlough
Author
Series
Amberlough dossier volume 1
Publisher
Tora a Tom Doherty Associates book
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Amberlough City, the illustrious but corrupt cosmopolitan beacon of Gedda. The radical One State Party--nicknamed the Ospies--is gaining popular support to unite Gedda's four municipal governments under an ironclad, socially conservative vision. Not everyone agrees with the Ospies' philosophy, including master spy Cyril DePaul and his lover Aristide Makricosta, smuggler and emcee at the popular Bumble Bee Cabaret. When Cyril's cover is...
Author
Series
Singing Hills Cycle novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover-a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty--and discover how truth can survive becoming history. Nghi Vo returns to the empire of Ahn and the Singing Hills Cycle in When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, a...
Author
Series
Singing Hills Cycle novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful... "The Empress of Salt and Fortune" is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."
Author
Series
Terra incognita volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Uraban leader Soldan-Shah Omra captures the city of Ishalem from the Tierrans, his people discover an ancient map to the Key to Creation, prompting Omra to send his adoptive son across an uncharted sea to find the relic.
40) Stillbright
Author
Series
Paladin trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The adventure continues... Ordained by an ancient goddess of mercy and light, former knight Allystaire Coldbourne has become a paladin, a hero out of legend. But evil stalks him, angry gods align against him, and greedy warlords want him dead. With the help of his friends, each blessed with extraordinary powers by the Goddess, Allystaire must escape the clutches of sorcerers and wicked rulers who will stop at nothing to destroy him as he continues...
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